[Pkg-silc-devel] Bits from DebCamp - Binary package names

[Micah Anderson]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Fri 2007-06-15 08:44:11 -0400, David Ammouial wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the great work!
> 
> Yes, thanks, Jérémy!

Amazing!

>> I would suggest "silcc", as the counterpart of "silcd", or maybe
>> "irssilc", since this implementation is based on irssi.

I think 'irssilc' would be confusing because there are two different situations
with irssi:

1. the silc client which is based on the irssi code
2. the irssi silc plugin

It seems to me that the plugin should be named 'irssi-plugin-silc' to coincide
with the already existing 'irssi-plugin-icq' and the silc client should just
avoid the irssi name altogether.

> installing silcc but having to run /usr/bin/silc is even more
> confusing.  My vote:
> 
>  * Definitely rename the silc-server package to silcd, which Provides:
>    silc-server
> 
>  * Either keep silc-client with the same name (to avoid the confusion
>    David describes above) or rename it to silc (to align with the name
>    of the binary, since we're already clobbering one namespace).  I
>    prefer the latter myself.

I think I also find the latter to be the better option myself.

Micah